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Supporting Young Men and Boys of Color: Targeting as a Case for Health Equity
RWJF has long recognized that conditions such as poverty and violence negatively affect health. Conversely, factors such as good education and economic opportunity, safe streets, and supportive social networks lead to better health outcomes.
Bridging Community Development, Health, and Metrics
The community development sector plays a vital role in improving neighborhood conditions, lifting people and places out of poverty, and transforming the health of low-income communities. Increasingly, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are partnering with health foundations to invest in health-promoting efforts such as affordable housing, health clinics, grocery stores, and child care centers.
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Innovations in Health Equity
As foundations begin to think differently about how to improve the health of all people, many grantmakers are looking outside of health care and collaborating across sectors to address the root causes of persistent health disparities and inequities. Achieving health equity requires innovative solutions that result from the combined forces of philanthropy, policymakers, government, community-based organizations, and other partners.
Is the Energy Boom in Your Backyard? Oil and Gas Extraction Threatens Health and Communities Across the United States
The increasing use of a process called hydraulic fracturing–commonly called fracking–is transforming not only the nation’s energy supply, but also its landscape.
Supportive Housing: Strengthening Communities, Improving Health
Supportive housing has emerged as an innovative and comprehensive intervention that addresses the health inequities associated with housing instability, affordability, and homelessness. In this model, housing is combined with wraparound services such as primary and behavioral health care, case management, financial assistance, and legal counseling.
Fulfilling the Promise of Equality: Ensuring that “Health for All” Extends to Everyone
The Affordable Care Act is crucial toward fixing a health care system that has been broken for far too long. But ensuring that “health for all” extends to everyone will require policymakers and advocates to pursue a more inclusive approach to health care reform
Advancing Health Equity in Turbulent Times
With risk-taking and innovation as core values, the Consumer Health Foundation sought new ways to advance its work. This Views from the Field describes how the foundation applied a field-building approach to grantmaking and collaborative funding approaches to address health, economic, and racial equity priorities.
How Much Do Healthy Communities Cost?
Research links decent, affordable housing and high-quality education to a range of positive social outcomes—including improved health.
Health Equity and Social Justice: A Health Improvement Tool
Disparate health outcomes are a reality of the American health system and are a result of not only of inadequacies in health care, but also the failure to address the social determinants of health.
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